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Plot Summary:
This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
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The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987)
Plot Summary:
A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 90 min
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This Summer at Five (1963)
Plot Summary:
This Finnish romance tells of a young couple who vacation by the ocean. While there, the unsatisfied man decides he wants to end their relationship. Upon their return home, he has an overnight fling with another woman while his recently dumped girlfriend calmly waits outside his home. When the jilted woman begins to walk alone to her own apartment, she is struck by a passing car, and only then does the young man realize that he truly loves her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Dotonbori River (1982)
Plot Summary:
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
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Time of the Storks (1971)
Plot Summary:
Susanne and Christian get to know each other during a wonderful week in summer - and fall in love. This, however, leads to conflicts: up to now, Susanne has been living with Wolfgang, a biologist. This shared life was harmonious and based on mutual trust. Wolfgang is not only resolute and in full command of social situations; he has also always been the stabilizing force in the relationship. This is precisely why Susanne now feels drawn to the unsettled, unsteady and frivolous Christian, the complete opposite of the calm, well-balanced Wolfgang. And Christian, working as a shift boss on a natural gas derrick, has become more aware of his personal and social responsibilities as a result of loving Susanne.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Right On, Man! (1980)
Plot Summary:
In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
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Takiaispallo (1970)
Plot Summary:
Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 79 min
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To Miss with Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a new teacher (Sharla Cheung) arrives, she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the students from her class. Jimmy Lin is harbouring an unrequited crush on childhood friend Athena Chu. However, he is too shy to reveal his feeling to her when he discovers that she has fallen for the cool kid in class, Nicky Wu. Meanwhile, another student Dicky Cheung has gotten himself into trouble with the triads after failing to pay a debt owed to them. With so much going on, how will Sharla Cheung find a way to solve the troubles of her students and get them to study hard to pass their exams?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Karla (1965)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: banned, banned film
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The Asphalt Lambs (1968)
Plot Summary:
The story of a doomed young love in a small, narrow-minded town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
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Penguin (1965)
Plot Summary:
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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Skin, Skin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Young Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Love and Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, intellectual
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Sensuela (1973)
Plot Summary:
Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Molly Maxwell (2013)
Plot Summary:
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she embarks on a photography independent study under the tutelage of her attractive English teacher, Ben. Their relationship quickly evolves beyond the darkroom, introducing Molly to the throes of a first love, and putting Ben’s job in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, independent film
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Plot Summary:
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: romantic, educational, sentimental, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized
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Milea: Suara dari Dilan (2020)
Plot Summary:
Before the grand reunion, Dilan decided to write and retell his love story with Milea. This is Dilan's way of remembering Milea.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, romantic, sentimental
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Backroads (1997)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Flirting (1991)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic relationship with a girl. He slowly becomes interested in Thandiwe Adjewa, a Ugandan-Kenyan-British girl attending the all-girls school across the lake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, serious, teen, atmospheric, independent film
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A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love (2022)
Plot Summary:
Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Narratage (2017)
Plot Summary:
During spring, 2nd year university student Izumi Kudo (Kasumi Arimura) receives a phone call from Takashi Hayama (Jun Matsumoto). Takashi Hayama was her adviser/teacher at her high school drama club. He asks her on the phone to take part in a graduation performance. Back in high school, Takashi Hayama helped her cope with her difficulties school life. She also held feelings for Takeshi, but tried to forget about him. Now, for the first time in a year they will meet again. Izumi still has feelings for him and Takashi also has mixed feelings for Izumi.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating
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For Both of Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Çiçek is a girl who grew up in a small village. She has so many questions about her own life with no answers. And then her life is changed by Dogan, her literature teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet
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Dilan 1991 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dilan & Milea are now dating. But as time goes by, Dilan has to choose between his motorcycle club or Milea.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Plot Summary:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Plot Summary:
Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the headmaster's son (Peter Bjerg) and the two boys form a bond that slowly grows into a sexual relationship. Frank and unadorned, this Danish film concluded director Lasse Nielsen's youth-oriented trilogy that began with La' Os Være (1975) and continued with Måske Ku' Vi (1976). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, art house, grindhouse, romantic drama, sexual
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The Road Home (1999)
Plot Summary:
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: emotional, romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized, sad, psychedelic, feel good, epic
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
Plot Summary:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, emotional, independent film, romantic, feel good, sweet, heartbreaking